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Sunday, October 30, 2016

I am sharing a fun one layer, easy to mass produce, Christmas card using the stamps from the Stamp of Approval Candy Cane Lane Collection. I randomly stamped the candy canes in red and green then filled in with the blue peppermint candies. Added my sentiment in black and a strip of black card stock along the bottom and voila, finished card! :)

Thursday, October 6, 2016

This sketch sings to my CAS heart! I love how this leaf turned out. I first stamped the Mini Scenery: Multifaceted stamp by Winnie & Walter onto water color cardstock. Heat embossed using gold embossing powder then used Color Bursts to add color. I then die cut using a leaf from My Favorite Things. I love that the color burst powders give it a realistic look. The colors are just beautiful here in the North West corner of Connecticut! Recognize this leaf Michele?!! :)

It is hard to see in the photo, but I scored lines down the front panel to represent the darker piece in the sketch. Recognize that Hello stamp? It is from the Hello World stamp set designed by Chaitali for Catherine Pooler Designs. You still have time to purchase this stamp set to help a school in Boston purchase computers. Read more here!

I used one of the leaf stamps from the Lovely Flowers stamp set to create this fun rainbow image. The hello is part of the Hello World stamp set with matching die and that lovely black and white stripe on the side is a new stamp from Yay! Stripes.

Another card using the same supplies but using the hi stamp and matching die. LOVE the little heart dotting the i!!!

All profits from the sale of the Hello World stamp set and the coordinating dies
from Saturday Oct. 1-Friday, Oct. 7 will purchase computers and other
school supplies for Sean's classroom. So cool, right?!!!

All of the stamp sets and dies I used on my cards today can be found HERE!!

I wanted to let you all know that we have been celebrating WCMD all weekend long over on StampNation! This is our biggest event of the year and the participation all weekend long has been incredible.

We have approximately $450 worth of prizes up for grabs! WOOHOO!!!

A HUGE thank you to our amazing sponsors!

Challenges are always open, but for your chance to win one of the amazing prizes submit your cards by Oct. 22nd. Gives you plenty of time to play along.

YOU can help by purchasing a brand new stamp & die set illustrated by Chaitali Narla for Catherine Pooler Designs called Hello World. All profits from the sale of this stamp set and the coordinating dies from Saturday Oct. 1-Friday, Oct. 7 will purchase computers and other school supplies for Sean's classroom. So cool, right?!!!

Here are a couple cards I created using the Hello World stamp set and dies.

As you can see on my card there are many different "hello" and "Hi" stamps in several languages with fun greetings to stamp with it to tie in all the elements above. I decided to use all of the big sentiment images on my card. I placed them where I wanted them on my clear block then stamped and heat embossed using silver pearl embossing powder. I then masked off the edges using post it tape and sponged to create a colorful focal point. I then stamped, embossed and die cut the biggest hello stamp from the set. Attached that to my card along with a heat embossed friend sentiment that comes in the set.

Here is another card I wanted to share.

This card uses one of the Hello's in the Hello World stamp set, but it also uses the amazing Yay Stripes! stamp set that Catherine designed and has for sale today in her store. :) Awesome, right?!

Make sure you head on over to Catherine's blog to watch her video sharing how this "giving back" promotion came about.